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A headline from Google’s news feed: “Scientists have successfully recreated a dinosaur from chicken DNA!” (Exclamation point theirs) Below the headline, they claimed to have “proven how evolution works.”

My fascination with dinosaurs began at an early age. My second-grade class was flooded with books on them, telling my 7-year-old wide-eyed self what dinos evolved from and into and how many millions and millions of years ago it happened. And those books had the illustrations to prove it.

I loved the first Jurassic Park (The sequels get worse in order of appearance), which seemed obsessed with idea that dinos “evolved” into birds and offered flimsy evidence to support it. So, this was not a new idea. There’s even a line of dialogue in The Mentalist where Patrick Jane claims birds are tiny dinos. It’s in the disappointing episode where Red John is revealed. (No evidence offered, of course) The dimbulb character Rigsby doesn’t say it, Jane does, so the audience is supposed to take it as fact.

I clicked on the article which featured a video. Looks like it’s from a respected periodical, The Archaeologist. Google “chicken DNA” and it’ll come right up.

I watched/listened to the video several times, knowing exactly what I would get. The opposite of what the headline claimed. This always happens when you read an article claiming a fossil finding will “rewrite the history of human evolution”. A few bone scraps from an extinct monkey, an artist’s depiction of a half-ape/half-human brute, and fanciful speculation.

And that’s what happened with the chicken/dinosaur. Was there video of a living, breathing brontosaurus?
No.

The video is ten minutes, 1/4th of which is spent on dinos in pop culture, accompanied by realistic-looking animation along with clips of Jurassic Park. The video’s narrator asserts that voluminous bird fossils prove dinos evolved into birds yet offers no evidence. This, despite wasting a chunk of the video on pop culture.
The narrator also claims research has proved birds can become dinos. I’ve lived in the country for decades and no dino has ever emerged from a bird egg.

And they never will. Darwin’s finches are still, and will forever remain, finches.

The meat of their experiment is this: they slightly modified the shape of a chicken’s beak. They call it, “Chickenosaurus”. (I didn’t make that up)

That’s it.

While describing the modifications, the video admits bird genes are different from reptile and mammal genes. This fact points to special creation, not “evolution”. It also admits dino snouts are different from bird beaks. They had to intentionally genetically alter them.

As in the case of flashy music videos distracting the audience from how weak a song actually is, this “scientific” video continually runs clips of animated dinos, interspersed with scenes from Jurassic Park. Shamelessly, they show the scene where Grant, Ellie, Malcolm and Hammond are gathered around in astonishment, watching velociraptors hatch.
Then they admit they didn’t allow their “dino” eggs to hatch. Were I seven years old, I’d have been completely snookered by the computerized animation, just as I was by the illustrations in those old books. Indoctrinated into the Church of Evolution as a child.


Conclusions:

1. If by “proving how evolution works”, they mean slightly altering an animal’s appearance by deliberate genetic interference, they succeeded. All they proved was that such alterations need an intelligent mind and a skilled guiding hand. Nothing “evolved” in and of itself. Evolution is a hoax. Many are emotionally invested in it, resulting in expensive, time-consuming experiments designed to prop up the hoax. What do they have to show for this one? Winner, winner-chicken dinner!

2. The video relentlessly gives the credentials of the people who worked on the chickenosaurus. *snicker*. Harvard, evolutionary biologist etc. Fine. One guy says their experiment is like the moon landing. It can happen! Dinosaurs will once again roam the earth. They just need to stick to it. An earlier similar experiment took seven years, and they admit its results were “inconsequential”. The moon landing took less than a decade and produced actual results.


3. I was a horror movie buff when younger. Not the demented stuff that’s out there now. I remember Island of Lost Souls with Bela Lugosi. These “scientists” talk in the video about using mice to elongate the tails of chickens and other similar ideas.
I find that (and them) extremely creepy. These guys are the descendants of Dr. Moreau. There are other modern “scientific” experiments that remind me of Dr. Mengele.

4. There’s a quote in the Bible book of Romans that applies here, “…the basic reality of God is plain enough. Open your eyes and there it is! By taking a long and thoughtful look at what God has created, people have always been able to see what their eyes as such can’t see: eternal power, for instance, and the mystery of his divine being. So nobody has a good excuse. What happened was this: People knew God perfectly well, but when they didn’t treat him like God, refusing to worship him, they trivialized themselves into silliness and confusion so that there was neither sense nor direction left in their lives. They pretended to know it all but were illiterate regarding life…” (Romans 1:19-22 The Message)


All glory to God and His Son, Jesus Christ, who created all things. (Hebrews 1:1-3, 11:3)





Robert George 12/6/2022